Some of the Western Cape's rampant alcoholism can be traced back to the Cape vineyard owners' old habit of paying their Cape Coloured workers partly in wine.

ECONOMIST: South African drinking rites

Crime in the Cape Flats, a Coloured (mixed-race) slum, has exploded in the past few years.

ECONOMIST: South Africa

He was moved to Bonteheuwel, a coloured township on the Cape Flats is the early 1970s.

BBC: Righting an apartheid wrong

The Cape's 400, 000 Muslims, who are mainly Coloured or Indian, have long felt ostracised from the country's fervently Christian mainstream.

ECONOMIST: South Africa

The costume worn by the singers usually consists of a white or coloured tunic, sometimes embroidered around the neck and hem, and often worn with a cape.

UNESCO: Culture